Is the Israeli Government Intentionally Relinquishing the Temple Mount? Over the past few years, an increasing number of reports have emerged about the heightened tensions in the area of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (what the Muslims call “Al Aqsa” mosque) between those Jews who wish to pray there and the Muslim Waqf.
Since the glorious Jewish liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967; the immortal words of Israeli Lt. General “Motta” Gur still ring in the ears of the nation of Israel. As he commanded the army division that penetrated the holy city that that had been under Jordanian rule for the last 19 years, the words “Har HaBayit B’Yadenu” (the Temple Mount is in our hands) was broadcast around the globe.
Rivers of tears flowed freely down the faces of Jews of all stripes and denominations on that day; as the dream of thousands of years has finally come true. Once again, Jews would pray thrice daily at the Western Wall and at the place where the holy Beis Hamikdash once stood.
It didn’t take very long for Israel to acquiesce to the guilt that wracked them over defeating their Arab enemies during the six-day war. Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan immediately ordered soldiers to remove an Israeli flag that had been raised over the Temple Mount. He declared: “To our Arab neighbors we extend the hand of peace. To members of the other religions, Christians and Muslims, I hereby promise faithfully that their full freedom and all their religious rights will be preserved. We did not come to Jerusalem to conquer the Holy Places of others.” (Meron Benvenisti, Jerusalem: The Torn City, Isratypeset, Jerusalem, 1976)
Handing administrative control over the Temple Mount to Jordan's Islamic Waqf, Dayan banned Jews from holding prayer services there. Israel, however, retained sovereignty and security control of the area.
According to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting web site, “since 1967, there has been a growing attempt by Palestinians to marshal the religious fervor of the Arab and Muslim world in order to wrest Jerusalem from Israeli control. As historian Dr. Yitzhak Reiter documented in a 2005 study entitled "From Jerusalem to Mecca and Back: The Islamic Consolidation of Jerusalem," their campaign involves denying the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount while advancing Jerusalem and particularly the al-Aqsa compound’s sacredness in contemporary Islam. It also involves reinventing history to create an Arab connection to Jerusalem predating the Jewish one.”
Responding to a 2012 report describing the Arab harassment of Jews who visit the Temple Mount, Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute said this kind of abusive behavior has become commonplace and quite deliberate. “It is obvious from years of experience that the Waqf's single intent vis-à-vis Jews on the Temple Mount is to make them feel unwelcome, unwanted and like trespassers anywhere they might be on the Mount,” he told Arutz Sheva.
The solution, he suggested, is for Israel’s police to get involved. “It is unacceptable that the police allow Jewish youth groups from abroad to be monitored by the Waqf without Israeli policemen present,” he continued. “A policeman should either be attached to every group which goes up or should be visibly stationed across the Mount wherever such a group might be so that any incident of anti-Jewish harassment can be immediately and easily reported to the police.”
Waqf employees should not be allowed to communicate with non-Muslims “except via an Israeli policeman,” he said.
And this is the precise nexus of the issue. Verifiable evidence has recently been documented in a recent Israeli government classified report that indicates that authorities are intentionally not exercising their lawful authority on the Temple Mount in order to placate the Waqf and the incessant cries of international pressure.
In addition to the Israeli police, the authorities of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Antiquities Authority also have legal authority on the Temple Mount. It has become tragically clear, however, that their timorous posture, their gross ineptitude and palpable weakness have resulted in placing actual sovereignty of the Temple Mount in the hands of the Muslims.
In truth, the Muslim Waqf has been accorded tacit approval by the Israeli government to do whatever it likes in their mini “autonomous state.”
The director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority had stated that they were forced to authorize a dig in the Temple courtyard with a tractor backhoe because of threats issue by the Waqf.
In November of 1999, the Waqf perpetrated an unprecedented archaeological crime when it excavated a massive amount of earth filled with artifacts from the First and Second Temple periods to build an entrance to the gigantic underground mosque in Solomon’s Stables, also built illegally and without any permit inside a huge, ancient space.
The writing is on the walls for all those who have eyes to see and ears that hear. There is strong evidence that the Israeli government is in collusion with the Muslim Waqf in order to maintain their independence and perhaps their dominance in the region.
Such facts represent a stark realization that this unacceptable situation must be rectified in the most expeditious manner possible. As readers of the Jewish Voice, we invite you to stay tuned to this paramount issue. In the next few weeks; in an exclusive report, the Jewish Voice will make the findings of this classified report public. For the sake of our future as a people and that of generations to follow, we exhort you not to miss the disclosure of this vital information.
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